The name La Garde was formed many centuries ago in France during the Dark Ages in that northern western region known as Brittany. It was a name typically given to a vegetable gardener. It translates as of the gardens, and was given to the person in charge of growing edible produce.

Early History of the La Garde family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our La Garde research.Another 265 words (19 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1533, 1814, 1894, 1631, 1683, 1637 and 1694 are included under the topic Early La Garde History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

La Garde Spelling Variations

Most surnames have experienced slight spelling changes. A son may not chose to spell his name the same way that his father did. Many were errors, many deliberate. During the early development of the French language, a person usually gave his version, phonetically, to a scribe, a priest, or a recorder. Prefixes or suffixes varied. They were optional as they passed through the centuries, or were adopted by different branches to signify either a political or religious adherence. Hence, there a many spelling variations of the name La Garde, including Desjardin, Desjardins, DesJardin, DesJardins, Desjardines, DesJardines, Déjardin, Déjardins, Dujardin, DuJardin, Desjardains, Desjardain, Déjardain, DéJardien, Déjerdin, Desjerdin, Desjerdins, Déjerdins, Déjerdain, Déjerdains, Le Jardin, Les Jardins, Lesjardins, Jardin, Jardines, Desjerdin and many more.

Early Notables of the La Garde family (pre 1700)

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Migration of the La Garde family to the New World and Oceana

By 1643 there were only about 300 people in Quebec. Since immigration was slow, early marriage was desperately encouraged amongst the immigrants. The fur trade attracted migrants, both noble and commoner. 15,000 explorers left Montreal in the late 17th and 18th centuries. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported to Louisiana. The French founded Lower Canada, thus becoming one of the two great founding nations of Canada. The distinguished family name La Garde has made significant contributions to the culture, arts, sciences and religion of France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name La Garde were

La Garde Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Julio Maria Lagarde, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1862 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

La Garde Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Loasis La Garde, who landed in America, in 1904

Mrs. L. La Garde, aged 35, who emigrated to the United States, in 1905

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (b. 1956), French lawyer and Union for a Popular Movement politician, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (2011-)

Henri-Jacques Martin de Lagarde, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 [3]CITATION[CLOSE]Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, March 25) Henri-Jacques Lagarde. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html

Paul Anton de Lagarde (1827-1891), born Paul Bötticher, a German polymath, biblical scholar and Orientalist

Carlos de Lucio Lagarde (1928-2007), best known as Karloff Lagarde, a Mexican professional wrestler, four-time Mexican National Welterweight Champion

See Also

Citations

^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

^ The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 1) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html

^ Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, March 25) Henri-Jacques Lagarde. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html